Assistant Professors Chad Jenkins and Meinolf Sellmann have been selected to receive one of Brown's highly competitive Salomon Awards. The $30,000 grant will support research projects in time-critical decision making and robot learning from demonstration. Their research in this area will be applied to the robot soccer domain through participation in the Robocup competition this summer. This work will increase the accessibility of controlling robots to greater numbers of people through developing methods for learning basic robot skills from human demonstration. These skills are the basis for research into time-critical optimization to allow robots to reason as close ...

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized 34 of its members for their contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology. The new ACM Fellows, from some of the world’s leading industries, research labs, and universities made significant advances that are having lasting effects on the lives of citizens throughout the world.

Brown Computer Science garnered two Fellows this year. Professor Maurice Herlihy was recognized for his contributions to distributed and parallel systems and Professor and Department Chair Eli Upfal for his contributions to parallel and stochastic networks.

ACM will formally recognize the ...